Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature

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Author(s): Paul Douglass
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Year: 1986

Language: English
Pages: 223
Tags: Bergson, Henri; Henri Bergson; T. S. Eliot; Faulkner, T.;History of Ideas; Literature;American literature-20th century;History and criticism; Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941; Bergson, Influence;Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888-1968; T. S. Eliot, Criticism and interpretation;Criticism-United States.

Acknowledgments ix
A Note on the Texts and Abbreviations Used xi
Introduction 1
1. Bergson and Bergsonism 7
2. Bergsonian Intuition and Modernist Aesthetics 27
3. Eliot's Unacknowledged Debt 49
4. Time, Intuition, and Self..Knowledge in Eliot's Poetry 83
5. Eliot, Bergson, and the Southern Critics 106
6. Deciphering Faulkner's Uninterrupted Sentence 118
7. Faulkner and the Bergsonian Self 142
8. Bergson and American Modernism 166
Notes 179
Selected Bibliography 195
Index 203